This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.
A Brief History of AUTHORS files
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The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.
The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".
This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.
Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:
> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.
It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.
In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.
Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.
The source file changes were purely mechanical with:
git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
It's an unnecessary nuisance having it. We go out of our way to redact
it in so many places when we don't even need it there anyway.
Updates #12639
Change-Id: I5fc72e19e9cf36caeb42cf80ba430873f67167c3
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
It was moved in f57fa3cbc30e.
Updates tailscale/corp#22748
Change-Id: I19f965e6bded1d4c919310aa5b864f2de0cd6220
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Many places that need to work with node/peer capabilities end up with a
something-View and need to either reimplement the helper code or make an
expensive copy. We have the machinery to easily handle this now.
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ic3f55be329f0fc6c178de26b34359d0e8c6ca5fc
Signed-off-by: Adrian Dewhurst <adrian@tailscale.com>
The design changed during integration and testing, resulting in the
earlier implementation growing in the appc package to be intended now
only for the sniproxy implementation. That code is moved to it's final
location, and the current App Connector code is now renamed.
Updates tailscale/corp#15437
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
* Implement missing tests for sniproxy
* Wire sniproxy to new appc package
* Add support to tsnet for routing subnet router traffic into netstack, so it can be handled
Updates: https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/15038
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
Port 8080 is routinely used for HTTP services, make it easier to
use --forwards=tcp/8080/... by moving the metrics port out of the
way.
Updates #1748
Signed-off-by: Denton Gentry <dgentry@tailscale.com>
1. Add TCP port forwarding.
For example: ./sniproxy -forwards=tcp/22/github.com
will forward SSH to github.
% ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pem -T git@github.com
Hi GitHubUser! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not
provide shell access.
% ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pem -T git@100.65.x.y
Hi GitHubUser! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not
provide shell access.
2. Additionally export clientmetrics as prometheus metrics for local
scraping over the tailnet: http://sniproxy-hostname:8080/debug/varz
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1748
Signed-off-by: Denton Gentry <dgentry@tailscale.com>
Count number of sessions, number of DNS queries answered
successfully and in error, and number of http->https redirects.
Updates #1748
Signed-off-by: Denton Gentry <dgentry@tailscale.com>
